sanguine 2012-04-23 16:03
I always love eat to grow games, the graphics are good too. I think the gameplay is slightly too slow though, maybe make the player progress faster?
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD23 → Rat Conquest
By waschnick
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coolness | 2 | 87 | ||
| Graphics | 311 | 3.13 | ||
| Humor | 320 | 2.45 | ||
| Mood | 449 | 2.66 | ||
| Audio | 500 | 2.30 | ||
| Overall | 535 | 2.80 | ||
| Fun | 548 | 2.61 | ||
| Innovation | 603 | 2.57 | ||
| Theme | 621 | 2.62 |
I always love eat to grow games, the graphics are good too. I think the gameplay is slightly too slow though, maybe make the player progress faster?
I really enjoyed this game. It does however take far to long to increase your size the first time through. Not to mention you are moving extremely slow. But the game concept really comes through, and I liked it overall.
I didn't have the patience to eat enough to grow to the next size, I think if there were more humans and you moved faster, that wouldn't be a problem. Dodge-bullets-and-eat-humans looks like it would be more fun when you're bigger and there's lots of bullets to dodge.
Grow games rock. I have to agree that it moves a little slow.
Nice work!
I like this. Given some tweaks and balancing as far as speed goes, both for your character and your enemies - can make this game quite fun.
Wish it were a little faster. I want to grow big quicker. Like the graphics.
The movement of the rat is a bit slow : the game may feel better with a faster initial movement.
Also, I died after hitting a house, while I was full-life? Maybe a bug because I died previously (something not initialized properly)?
Thanks for playing :) You get faster when you grow, maybe the game is a little bit to hard, because I adjusted the movement speed to make it harder.
@deepnight: Strange, normally everything gets recreated after you die. Was there anything else near you? But nevertheless, it's to late for bugfixing ;)
Yeah, I found the starting speed a little slow, too. I couldn't dodge bullets or eat enough to advance.
If there's anything I've learned today, it's to err on the side of speed (I think my game is a touch too slow too).
GROWWWWWWWW. Liked the pixel texturing quite a bit.
I like what you did with the graphic style, but the creature moves really slowly and music loop is too short.
@ratbiy2715: The sound file is a 2 MByte wav, the actual song was like 3 times as long, but was 6 MB, so I need to cut it down :/ Next time I will try something else as sound-framework, I used the standard Java Sound API, but some ogg-files would be better.
it would have been actually pretty good game if not for the incredible slowness of movement... it gets boring really fast.
I concur that initial movement is too slow. Other than that, though, I liked it!
I played until the end (I wanted to see the "really gigantic" rat >:( )
Meanwhile the first rat was slow in the third evolution I really enjoyed (haha, come here legged sandwitches!)
Of the graphic side I like especially the border land combined with the starry background.
The music is a bit repetitive but ¡what the hell! at least there's music, most of the games I've played until now (mine included) have not music.
So, I congratulate for a good work!
Cheers!
It is nice, but the game is far too slow. I gave up when I died the first time
Overall i like this, could be a bit faster though.
Simple but fun gameplay. Basically fight and level up but its rewarding and getting revenge on the military is nice.
Problems are:
* Rat is really slow in the beginning
* You always face left or right so its way more dangerous to attack enemies from top or bottom because you cant evade the bullets as well.
A bit too slow for my liking both in progression speed and general movement speed. Looks like it had quite a lot of potential but I get a bit too annoyed at the slow movement so I didn't get very far.
well that was kinda trippy :D Loved the death screen! Btw, were those humans I was eating? Lol. Congrats on finishing LD and making a game!
Thanks for playing :) Yeah, these were humans :D The brown ones were actually kittens... At first they were white, but looked like bunnys. Then I found an image of a brown cat and this was my try to get it into 6x6 pixels ;)
+1,000,000 for Kittens.
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This was a cool concept but the movement was way too slow for my personal taste. Not much more to say than that sorry!
Everything moves really, really, slowly and makes the already-slow player progression even slower. If the game was quick, then it would be a really fast-paced and cute little ROTMG style game.
This looks great, but faster movement would have done wonders for the game, it's really slow now.
I kept eating and eating and nothing was happening. Also the music got grating quickly. Good work on the graphics though.
Nice idea, but hopelessly slow.
Nevertheless, feasting on the military is a good feeling after all the trouble they've given me. However in the bigger stages the hit you receive is feels too long.
Still, nice one!
Waaaay to slow to keep my interest up. But it looks pretty. :)
Thank you all for the feedback :) After I played the game today after two weeks I really must say - it really just feels way to slow :D
I have no idea what's going on, but I really like the textured pixel graphics.
Loved the graphics. Did not love the slow movement/progression. I gave up after I got shot INTO a bulding, killing me off.
Notched! With R.O.U.S.!! Gorgeous!!!
I really liked the art style.
It moves too slow :(
I think it would be more fun if it were faster.
I liked the graphics in game because they look like an old pc game. The menu graphics could be improved.